I will tell you what has increased the "senior moments." I have two German mail lists, one for the discussion of German Cultures and the other for German Food. While I was on vacation someone by the name of "derkumpel" [meaning buddy] assumed my identity and posted a roll call to the German life mail list and asked that first names and email addresses be posted to the mail list as I was having administrative difficulties and needed their help....this was to harvest email addresses. Then the members started receiving porn spam... I got in on the tail end of that roll call and advised everyone that I did not call a roll call on a conversation or chat mail list. Damage was done...then derkumpel moves to my food list and posts a roll call in my name this time using my full name and then IT posted a web page addy and on this web page IT had all my personal data.. my address, Jack's birth date and location, our wedding date and location, my birth date and location and my marital status was "Married but looking" and then he had a picture of me with the heading... "Hi, my name is Gail and it was a picture of a pig.... The picture didn't bother me it was all the info this person had gathered on us to build a web page...yesterday was spent on the phone with my attorney, to the Sheriff, to the Attorney General, to the TV station, to the FCC and the final results is a claim has been filed with the FBI, after talking to an agent he advised me that I had a case and needed to deal with it immediately and since he was in Tucson, I needed to contact DC so with that done today the web page information is gone but still listed under "derkumpel". I was advised that this person was trying to assume my identity and with the web page as far as I am concerned that is when he stepped in "sh__" and I know that you Scot's have a temper but you ain't ever seen this German in action....so that is what has been happening since I got home from vacation on Tuesday night and now I am playing the "clean the email off the computer... have 700 more to go. Another thing, some of the people who are on another mail list after I posted what happened to that group started looking into Ancestry.com of which they were members and had purchased material from and low and behold their full data and credit card information is posted on the web site as well as the expiration dates so if someone breaks into that system the information on them and their credit card is available. Emails have been sailing to Ancestry.com about that and credit cards are being cancelled. I hope this just makes us all be a little more careful in how we interface with the Internet. If you do not have a firewall on your computer you might look into it as I think "derkumpel" came to visit the inside of my computer as I did not have a firewall...I do now!! He had been planning that for some time and he could have visited my computer when he realized I was now home.????? Isn't life on a computer fun?????? ;-) You have a good one!! Gail